Cabinet Level Blogging

The Secretary of Health and Human Services, Mike Leavitt (my former
boss), has a blog. He's
writing it himself and, so far, doing a good job of keeping it up
with interesting posts. Recently he's been blogging his travel to
Africa. The blog is done using Typepad.

He's getting lots of comments, as you can image, which must
be gratifying. I haven't noticed much reaction in the blogosphere,
however. Cabinet-level officials aren't known for transparency, so
I am grateful for this kind of leadership. If more government
leaders wrote blogs--without filters--we'd have a better sense of
them and why they make the decisions they do.